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1  I lay in that separate building across the courtyard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
2  When I got into the courtyard, I found Estella waiting with the keys.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
3  My young conductress locked the gate, and we went across the courtyard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
4  I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
5  There was a courtyard in front, and that was barred; so we had to wait, after ringing the bell, until some one should come to open it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
6  I heard the side-door open, and steps come across the courtyard; but I pretended not to hear, even when the gate swung on its rusty hinges.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
7  An elderly woman, whom I had seen before as one of the servants who lived in the supplementary house across the back courtyard, opened the gate.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
8  By this time we had come to the house, where I found his room to be one just within the side-door, with a little window in it looking on the courtyard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
9  It was with a depressed heart that I walked in the starlight for an hour and more, about the courtyard, and about the brewery, and about the ruined garden.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
10  I therefore got up and put on my clothes, and went out across the yard into the long stone passage, designing to gain the outer courtyard and walk there for the relief of my mind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
11  Passing on into the front courtyard, I hesitated whether to call the woman to let me out at the locked gate of which she had the key, or first to go up stairs and assure myself that Miss Havisham was as safe and well as I had left her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
12  Here, the daylight reappeared, and I found myself in a small paved courtyard, the opposite side of which was formed by a detached dwelling-house, that looked as if it had once belonged to the manager or head clerk of the extinct brewery.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI